The 20 Best Yielding Dividend Achievers

The Best Yielding Dividend Achievers Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Achievers are stocks with continuous rising dividends of at least ten years in a row. Only 189 companies have such an impressive dividend growth history. The dividend yield structure is mixed. The investment class has 62 stocks with a yield below two percent, 113 stocks with a yield up to three percent and 150 yielding below four percent. Exactly 11 percent of the Dividend Achievers are high yields.

I screened the investment category by the best yielding stocks. All of the 20 high yields have a market capitalization over USD 300 million but only eight of them are recommended to buy.

Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 24.56 and forward P/E ratio is 20.43. The dividend yield has a value of 6.34 percent. Price to book ratio is 2.80 and price to sales ratio 4.25. The operating margin amounts to 32.48 percent. The earnings per share is expected to grow 9.14 percent for the next year and 5.71 percent for the upcoming five years.